Language is, inter alia, an instrument of political hegemony. The Will-to-Power is
inescapably the will to power over discourse, the will to control the means, occasions, and …

William Paulson,'Excising Enlightenment', NCFS, 46: 148–158, shows how far the writers of
the Romantic period were inclined to restrict their perspective of the preceding c., treating …

'EVER since then,'wrote Mr Logan Pearsall Smith in his essa Four Romantic Words,'the
history of art has been the history of scious and violent revolutions and reactions, instead of …

I The dates 1780-1850 mark, in round terms, the limits of a European age of revolutions, the
greatest series of violent political and social upheavals in modern times until the present …

The advent of the French Revolution led many observers to compare the political action of
the day with the unfolding of a stage drama: commentators in journals and memoirs of the …

Let me take it for granted that Romanticism is something wider than a set of literary canons
and a group of literary men; that it was a temper characteristic of a whole epoch and able to …

1. General catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze and alain Vaillant,'Le Siècle de la mystification',
Romantisme, 156: 3–11, follow the changing definition of the word 'mystification', particularly …

The aim of this study is to examine the poetic principles and techniques of post-Burgundian
court literature and their relationship to the political and historical context in which they …

The arrival of Protestantism in mid-sixteenth century France prompted the redefinition of an
emerging national identity hitherto built around the twin concepts of inherent national …

The sixteenth-century arts poétiques of Sébillet and Du Bellay situate the modern French
nation in relation to its cultural past and articulate a vision of national identity. They represent …